Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, Department of Medical Humanities, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3508 GA Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, Department of Medical Humanities, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3508 GA Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Stem Cell Reports. 2021 Jul 13;16(7):1656-1661. doi: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2021.05.021. Epub 2021 Jul 1.
The ethical implications of stem cell research are often described in terms of risks, side effects, safety, and therapeutic value, which are examples of so-called hard impacts. Hard impacts are typically measurable and quantifiable. To understand the broader spectrum of ethical implications of stem cell research on science and society, it is equally important to recognize soft impacts. Soft impacts are the effects on behavior, experiences, actions, moral values, and social structures; these are often indirect effects of stem cell research. The combined notions of hard and soft impacts offer a broader way of thinking about the social and ethical implications of stem cell research and can help to steer stem cell research into a sociable desirable direction. Soft impacts enable researchers to become more aware of the broad range of significant implications involved in their work and deserve equal attention for understanding such ethical and societal effects of stem cell research.
干细胞研究的伦理影响通常从风险、副作用、安全性和治疗价值等方面来描述，这些都是所谓的硬影响的例子。硬影响通常是可测量和可量化的。为了更全面地了解干细胞研究对科学和社会的伦理影响，同样重要的是要认识到软影响。软影响是对行为、经验、行动、道德价值观和社会结构的影响；这些往往是干细胞研究的间接影响。硬影响和软影响的综合概念为我们提供了一种更广泛的思考干细胞研究的社会和伦理影响的方式，并有助于引导干细胞研究朝着一个理想的方向发展。软影响使研究人员更加意识到他们工作中涉及的广泛的重要影响，值得同等关注，以了解干细胞研究的这些伦理和社会影响。
